Brewers owner has raised expectations

7:18 PM,
Mar. 31, 2013

Brewers general manager Doug Melvin watches the Timber Rattlers play in Grand Chute in 2010. 'My job is to manage the club where it is in the present and in the future,' he says. 'That is the balancing act you have.'

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Doug Melvin has worked with some aggressive baseball owners during his career.

The Milwaukee Brewers general manager was with the late George Steinbrenner while with the New York Yankees as a scouting director. He was an assistant general manager under Peter Angelos with the Baltimore Orioles and the general manager for Tom Hicks with the Texas Rangers.

Mark Attanasio might just be as involved as any of them. The Brewers' owner wants to win so much that he played a key role in the negotiations that brought free-agent pitcher Kyle Lohse to Milwaukee last week. ...